We are what we celebrate
Subtitle: understanding holidays and rituals
By: edited by Amitai Etzioni and Jared Bloom.
Contributors: Etzioni, Amitai.; Bloom, Jared, 1981-
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
Subjects: Holidays; Ritual; Family; Community life
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Holidays and rituals : neglected seedbeds of virtue -- Amitai Etzioni; title: Who are we and where do we come from? Rituals, families, and identities -- Elizabeth H. Pleck; title: Just for kids : how holidays became child centered -- Gary Cross; title: This is our family : stepfamilies, rituals, and kinship connections -- Mary F. Whiteside; title: Gathering together : remembering memory through ritual -- John R. Gillis -- The; title: festival cycle : Halloween to Easter in the community of Middletown -- Theodore Caplow; title: Mainstreaming Kwanzaa -- Anna Day Wilde; title: Victorian days : performing community through local festival -- David E. Procter; title: Can you celebrate dissent? Holidays and social protest -- Francesca Polletta -- The; title: invention of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday -- Matthew Dennis; title: Proclaiming Thanksgiving throughout the land : from local to national holiday -- Diana Muir; title: "Our hearts burn with ardent love for two countries" : ethnicity and assimilation-- Ellen M. Litwicki.